The Workbook for Healing Developmental Trauma: Tools and Techniques from the Neuroaffective Relational Model (Narm)

A comprehensive workbook for understanding and treating developmental trauma using the NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM)

Includes practical exercises for understanding ACEs, addressing C-PTSD, nurturing post-traumatic growth, identifying survival styles, and more

Designed for clinicians, trauma therapists, and practitioners of the NeuroAffective Relational Model, this workbook offers a blueprint to NARM's transformative approach to healing developmental trauma. Authors Laurence Heller, PhD, and Brad Kammer share practical skill-building exercises that deepen your own relationship to the material as you learn new, evidence-based, and highly effective ways to work with clients' trauma. Complete with detailed charts, visually engaging graphics, and practitioner-focused questionnaires, this workbook provides tools for use in clinical sessions as well as personal professional growth.

In an easy-to-apply format, the Workbook will explore:

• The 5 adaptive survival styles Learn how developmental needs for connection, attunement, trust, autonomy, and love-sexuality are disrupted by trauma and map onto adaptive survival strategies
• The 4 pillars of NARM Understand and apply key therapeutic skills that support healing and post-traumatic growth
• The NARM Relational Model Facilitate trauma resolution and real therapeutic growth via a dynamic, embodied process
• The NARM Emotional Completion Model Support clients in identifying their primary emotions, reflecting the emotion's intention, and building new relationships to unresolved emotional conflicts
• The NARM Personality Spectrum Use 10 psychobiological traits to understand and assess client self-organization

Heller and Kammer offer personal and therapist-oriented reflection questions to ground your work with NARM and assist you in integrating the model's nuances. Each section is designed to help practitioners translate NARM's advanced concepts into actionable strategies that deepen the therapeutic process--and whether you're new to NARM or seeking to refine your practice, the Workbook equips you with the resources to guide your clients toward profound healing and growth.

Author: Laurence Heller,Brad J. Kammer
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: 11/04/2025
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.90h x 7.00w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9798889842873
BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Psychopathology | Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Psychology | Developmental | General
- Psychology | Psychotherapy | Counseling

About the Author
LAURENCE HELLER, PhD, holds a doctorate in clinical psychology. He was in private practice for 40 years. He developed the NeuroAffective Relational Model(R) (NARM(R)), which is taught throughout the world. He is the author or co-author of four books, including Healing Developmental Trauma and The Practical Guide for Healing Developmental Trauma. He is the Founder & Director of the NARM Training Institute and teaches regularly in the US and Europe. Dr. Heller has conducted NARM trainings and case consultations for thousands of therapists throughout the United States and Europe. You can see more of his work at www.drlaurenceheller.com.

BRAD KAMMER, LMFT, LPCC, is the Founder & Director of the Complex Trauma Training Center and a senior trainer in NARM(R). He is the co-author of The Practical Guide for Healing Developmental Trauma. He began his career as a humanitarian aid worker in Asia working with personal and collective trauma. He is passionate about helping resolve the widespread impact of Adverse Child Experiences and Complex Trauma. His work is based on the integration of somatic psychology, interpersonal neurobiology, and wisdom from spiritual traditions and traditional cultures. He is a somatically-oriented psychotherapist in private practice, professor, producer of the Transforming Trauma podcast, trauma consultant, and international trainer on trauma-informed care. Follow his work at www.complextraumatrainingcenter.com.